Example sentences of "the [noun sg] in [art] time " in BNC.
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1 | They reach the further boundaries of the solid in a time which is probably between a ten-thousandth and a hundred-thousandth of a second and are reflected back , as a kind of echo , very little attenuated or diminished in intensity . |
2 | For example then all of you do the inimitable NMTs and would 've lost a mark , the real thing is when you 've got a time clause stop , think and really focus on this meaning of the verb in the time clause , right ? |
3 | Surely I should be over the field in no time . |
4 | Is there really anything in common between what was understood by the term in the time of Plato and Pericles and the meaning or meanings given to it nearly two and a half thousand years later ? |
5 | One may cite not only the case of the group already mentioned which felt itself to have been ill-treated at the hands of Civizade , but also the experience of Kadiri Celebi , the Mufti in the time of Suleyman , who spent nine years in great hardship as a before receiving an appointment , probably at the beginning of the second decade of the sixteenth century . |
6 | But what of the farmers expected to carry out the work in a time of recession . |
7 | 3.2 Should the Company be prevented for any reason whatsoever from completing the Work in the time agreed in Schedule I then the Publisher after giving the Company reasonable notice may commission the completion of the Work by another writer on terms that the Publisher shall consider fair to all parties and the terms in Schedule II shall be altered accordingly or the Publisher may withdraw from the Agreement . |
8 | Not all the Section had finished the run in the time allowed and so Sergeant-Chef Gibeau decided that we should all be punished . |
9 | It has been shown above that the accepted Turkish tradition dates the beginning of the Muftilik in the time of Murad II ( 1421–51 ) and names Molla Fenari as the first Mufti . |
10 | The King 's own statements , however , show the extent to which his view of the Church was political : ‘ It is not the change of Church government which is chiefly aimed at ’ , he wrote in 1646 , ‘ ( though that were too much ) but it is by that pretext to take away the dependency of the Church from the Crown , which , let me tell you , I hold to be of equal consequence to that of the militia ; for people are governed by the pulpit more than the sword in the time of peace . |
11 | As the Earl of Leicester is now dead , in whose keeping the King was by reason of the disturbance in the realm , and now by the favour of God the King is snatched out of his hands and raised again to his former estate , whereby with the common consent of the realm the King has caused all things attempted by the Earl for the diminution of the King 's right , honour and royal dignity to be revoked ; and whereas the forests north of Trent , which before the war in the time of the Earl were preserved whole and uninjured , have been disafforested and destroyed to the King 's disherison , the King commands the said Roger to re-afforest all the forests in his bailiwick as they were … before the war ; and if any part thereof ought of right to be disafforested , the King is prepared to do full justice . |
12 | It seems likely that it involved the utilisation of the X-rays emitted by the fission bomb trigger to propagate the explosion throughout the charge of thermonuclear fuel ; travelling at the speed of light they could initiate the fusion reaction in all parts of the charge in a time much less than could be achieved by shock waves ( travelling at perhaps 104m/s ) , so that a substantial degree of reaction Could occur before the material was dispersed by the explosion ( New Scientist , 2 September , 1982 , p641 ) . |
13 | However , when positive judgements were made , the difference in the time to make such a judgement between the two conditions remained at just over 400 ms . |
14 | And had known , took , took part in every one , right up I 'd never been away out of the town in the time the was on . |
15 | It will be all round the place in no time . ’ |
16 | With a motor and tyres made from plumber 's tubing , their entry had to be able to travel three metres and to carry a weight — and they proved to the judges that it could and it completed the distance in a time of 8.5 secs . |
17 | As epistemic breaks go , however , it seems to be a slow one : Foucault attributes its hesitancy to a fundamental reluctance to think difference rather than the reassuring form of the identical : it is , he comments , ‘ as if we were afraid to conceive of the Other in the time of our own thought ’ . |
18 | You 'll be out swinging a tiger by the tail in no time . ’ |
19 | If no team identifies the word in the time allotted the die is passed to the left . |
20 | Finally , pneumatic drills have been sparingly employed to uncover the surface of the main road into the town built during the expansion of the city in the time of Domitian . |
21 | It 'll be all over the colony in no time . |
22 | Catherine Coey was the first woman to cross the line in a time of 45min 57sec . |
23 | I 'll be stomping round the surgery in no time . |
24 | How can a spaceship travel across the Galaxy in no time at all ? |
25 | That light travels at the speed of five times around the earth in the time it takes to say rice pudding is indeed an amazing matter . |
26 | er reading and I ha , I could n't hold of enough of the material in the time I 'd got to write the essay so I would n't have studied enough , so I did this one on machines , and I got hold of two good books . |
27 | The company 's doctor was on the spot in no time , attended the patients , examined the sanitary arrangements , disinfected and closed the station well , and arranged for tanks of pure water to be conveyed from 62 miles away . |